Autonomous robots facing a diversity of open environments and performing a variety of tasks
and interactions need explicit deliberation in order to fulfill their missions. Deliberation is …

Personalization and localization are important when develo** social robots for different
sectors, including education, industry, healthcare or restaurants. This allows for an …

We describe an integrated strategy for planning, perception, state estimation and action in
complex mobile manipulation domains based on planning in the belief space of probability …

Handbook of Knowledge Representation describes the essential foundations of Knowledge
Representation, which lies at the core of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The book provides an up …

In highly dynamic environments, eg multiagent systems, finding optimal action plans is
practically impossible since individual agents lack important knowledge at planning time or …

This work aims for bottom-up and autonomous development of symbolic planning operators
from continuous interaction experience of a manipulator robot that explores the environment …

This book addresses the central role played by development in cognition. The focus is on
applying our knowledge of development in natural cognitive systems, specifically human …

A proposition is noncontingent, if it is necessarily true or it is necessarily false. In an
epistemic context,'a proposition is noncontingent'means that you know whether the …

We introduce a humanoid robot bartender that is capable of dealing with multiple customers
in a dynamic, multi-party social setting. The robot system incorporates state-of-the-art …

Abstract Business Process Management (BPM) is a central element of today's organizations.
Over the years, its main focus has been the support of business processes (BPs) in highly …